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Do others think or feel the same way as you ? How deep are rifts in cultural and interpersonal sensitivities ? Ask all your questions and compare the way your mind works and your psychological reactions with that of others.enSun, 15 Sep 2019 13:32:53 GMTvBulletin60https://www.eupedia.com/forum/images/misc/rss.pngEupedia Forum - Psychologyhttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/
https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39222-Why-do-men-send-explicit-photos?goto=newpost
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:07:46 GMTWell, this author thinks the reason is that men believe women would react the way they would if the corollary occurred, i.e. a woman sent "them" unsolicited "explicit" photos.

I personally think that's part of it, but first of all, men should have gotten the pictures by now that most women wouldn't respond well to that, and when a man continues to do it after being caught, arrested etc. i.e Wiener, I think you've got some sort of mental health issue involved.
]]>PsychologyAngelahttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39222-Why-do-men-send-explicit-photosDoes extraversion lead to a sense of well-being?https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39162-Does-extraversion-lead-to-a-sense-of-well-being?goto=newpost
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:19:24 GMTApparently, only because of one thing...

"We found that the correlation between the energy level facet and well‐being was solely responsible for the association between extraversion and well‐being. Neither sociability nor assertiveness were uniquely related to well‐being when energy level was included as a predictor. Thus, the correlations between well‐being and sociability and between well‐being and assertiveness can be almost fully explained by these constructs’ relationships with energy level.Conclusions

We conclude that the link between extraversion and well‐being should be attributed to the energy level facet rather than generalized to the trait level."

So, if they're right, extroverts "feel" better because they have more energy.

Sounds right to me. I taught myself to be much more sociable than is comfortable for me. I've described before how a vacation with my husband's family, all of whom I dearly love and who are such fun to be around, winds up exhausting me. They got used to my taking long walks by myself or going to my room for two hours to read. I need to recharge my batteries every once in a while. :)
]]>PsychologyAngelahttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39162-Does-extraversion-lead-to-a-sense-of-well-beingSome personality disorders are under sexual selection?https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39118-Some-personality-disorders-are-under-sexual-selection?goto=newpost
Sun, 25 Aug 2019 15:22:23 GMTSee:https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...90513815001075

"Personality variation is increasingly thought to have an adaptive function. This is less clear for personality disorders (PDs)—extreme variants of personality that cause harm in most aspects of life. However, the possibility that PDs may be maintained in the population because of their advantages for fitness has been not convincingly tested. In a sample of 959 outpatients, we examined whether, and how, sexual selection acts on the seven main dimensions of personality pathology, taking into account mating success, reproductive success, and the mediating role of status. We find that, to varying extents, all personality dimensions are under sexual selection. Far from being predominantly purifying, selective forces push traits in diverging, often pathological, directions. These pressures differ moderately between the sexes. Sexual selection largely acts in males through the acquisition of wealth, and through the duration (rather than the number) of mates. This gives a reproductive advantage to males high in persistence–compulsivity. Conversely, because of the decouplingbetween the number of mates and offspring, the promiscuous strategy of psychopaths is not so successful. Negative emotionality, the most clinically detrimental trait, is slightly deleterious in males but is positively selected in females, which can help to preserve variation. The general picture is that at least some PDs form part of high-risk alternative strategies, although a sole evolutionary mechanism is unlikely to apply to all traits. An evolutionary perspective on PDs can provide a better understanding of their nature and causes than we have achieved to date by considering them as illnesses."

I get that obsessiveness in men could lead to wealth acquisition and so sexual selection might act on it, but why is extreme emotionality selected for in women?
]]>PsychologyAngelahttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39118-Some-personality-disorders-are-under-sexual-selectionWearing high heels as female mating strategyhttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39109-Wearing-high-heels-as-female-mating-strategy?goto=newpost
Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:10:48 GMTI never thought of it in those terms at all, but I do remember saying that the day I had to put away my high heels would be the day I gave up. :)

I still have some of these in my closet. I can't bear to throw them out. I loved these shoes. I wore these to work everyday.

These are the precise Bruno Magli's I was wearing to a Mardi Gras party in New Orleans when some drunken yahoo idiot vomited all over my feet. I almost decked him with my purse. I've never been to Mardi Gras since. They can have it. Barbarians.

•Preference for high heels correlated with female self-perceived attractiveness.
•Shorter body height correlated with preferences for high heels.
•High heels were most preferred in interaction with an attractive male.
•High heels were least preferred in interaction with an unattractive male.
•High heels are female sexual signals.

Abstract

Females use various behavioural tactics in order to attract the attention of a desirable mate. Wearing high heels enhances female physical attractiveness for the opposite sex, thus their use seems to be a powerful sexual signal. We investigated female preferences for high heels both in everyday life as well as in a hypothetical mating scenario. Slovak females reported a low frequency of wearing high heels (45% once per month, 38% never) in everyday life. Females with a lower body height and high self-perceived attractiveness reported more frequent use of high heels than others. Sociosexuality and involvement in a romantic relationship did not predict the wearing of high heels. When females imagined an interaction with an attractive male, preferences for high heels steeply increased compared with a scenario with an unattractive male. Females with a low body height use high heels in all probability to visually elongate their leg length in order to increase their physical attractiveness. High heels seem to be a form of sexual signalling by females in intersexual interactions."

I certainly didn't and don't wear them for men. I wore and wear them for myself. They make me feel feminine, and believe it or not even a high heel is more comfortable for me than flats. My arches hurt in flats.

]]>PsychologyAngelahttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39109-Wearing-high-heels-as-female-mating-strategyDebunking of 10,000 hours theoryhttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39103-Debunking-of-10-000-hours-theory?goto=newpost
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:22:45 GMTOr, practice does not make perfect. Just practicing for 10,000 hours is not going to make you a great violinist. GENETICS, otherwise known as INNATE TALENT, is a huge factor, and more practice isn't going to substitute for it.

I always knew Gladwell's book was total baloney. Finally someone checked his stats, and they're bogus.

Meanwhile, of course, he did real harm with this book and his speeches and seminars, all while lining his own pockets, of course.

See:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1...7ef89e7c687a48
]]>PsychologyAngelahttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39103-Debunking-of-10-000-hours-theoryhttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39016-Cooperation-with-high-status-individuals-may-increase-one-s-own-status?goto=newpost
Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:14:22 GMTSeeking social status is a central human motivation. Whether it's buying designer clothing, working the way up the job ladder, or making a conspicuous donation to charity, humans often seek and signal social status. Human cooperation and competition aren't mutually exclusive, they are two sides of the same coin. Christopher von Rueden from the University of Richmond and Daniel Redhead from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology led a study to assess the relationship between men's cooperation and status hierarchy over a period of eight years in a community of Tsimane Amerindians in Amazonian Bolivia.

Among the Tsimane, status is informal and evident in who has more verbal influence during community meetings. Influential men in this community also enjoy greater health and have more surviving children. At three points over the eight-year period, the researchers asked men to rank other men within their community on their status and to report other men with whom they regularly cooperate, in terms of food-sharing or joint hunting, fishing, or horticultural labor. The researchers show that high status men gain more cooperation partners over time, and that men gain status over time by cooperating with men of higher status than themselves. By cooperating with high-status individuals, one may gain valuable information, resources or coalitional support that increases one's own status. Alternatively, cooperation with high-status individuals may increase one's status by more effectively broadcasting generosity or other desirable attributes to other community members.

"The finding that status depends on cooperation provides insight into why human societies, particularly small-scale societies like the Tsimane, are relatively egalitarian compared to other primates," says von Rueden, joint lead author of the study. "Humans allocate status based on the benefits we can provide to others, often more than on the costs we can inflict. This is in part because humans evolved greater interdependence, relying on each other for learning skills, producing food, engaging in mutual defense and raising offspring. Individuals who can offer unique services in these contexts gain status. However, the transfer of information and resources from higher- to lower-status individuals, as well as the potential reputational benefits to cooperating with higher-status individuals, may constrain or even erode status differentials. Status inequality is constrained when, by cooperating, status-dissimilar individuals influence each other's statuses. This likely changed with the spread of agriculture 10,000 years ago, as human communities grew in size and began producing more private wealth. Widespread cooperation among community members becomes difficult as community size increases, and individuals with more wealth can lose incentive to cooperate with the non-wealthy outside of more market-based or coercive transactions. These processes limit upward mobility and fuel stratification by wealth class."

Daniel Redhead, joint lead author of the study, adds, "This is one of the first longitudinal studies of social status. Our findings provide some of the first evidence that the relationship between cooperation and social status among humans is bidirectional. That is, humans, compared to other animals, give status to those who provide benefits to groups, and are thus more attracted to these individuals as cooperative partners. At the same time, individuals increase their own status by cooperating with such high status. These findings provide empirical evidence that stresses the broader importance of social interdependence—be it food sharing, food production, friendship or advice—in shaping human behavior, and that this interdependence makes the ways that we obtain social status quite distinct from other animals."https://phys.org/news/2019-08-cooper...dividuals.html
]]>PsychologyJovialishttps://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39016-Cooperation-with-high-status-individuals-may-increase-one-s-own-statusDoes IQ exist for animals?https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/38951-Does-IQ-exist-for-animals?goto=newpost
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 23:52:56 GMTIs IQ a construct that only makes sense in the context of humanity?Is IQ a construct that only makes sense in the context of humanity?
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